Hot on the tails of the debut shortlist, here’s the main event (I’ve read the first book and the next two have been on my reading list at various times):
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
- Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
- Attica Locke’s Black Water Rising
- The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey